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A UNITED ST TES" PATENT FFICEe BROOKLYN, ASSIGNORS TO SAID OF NEW YORK,N. Y.

PIOKHA RDT AND ADOLF KUTTROFF,

SALICYLATE OF CHINOLINE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 256,444, dated April 11,1882.

' Application filed February 24, 1882. (Specimens- To all whom .t't mayconcern Be it known that we, WILHELM P101;- HARDT and HERMANN ENDEMANN,both citizens of the United States, WILHELM PIoK- HARDT residing at NewYork, in the county and State of New York, and HERMANN EN- DEMANN,residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of NewYork,haveinve'nted new and useful Improvements ina-Medical Compound, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a medical compound which is obtained by theaction of salicylic acid on chinoline. v

In carrying out our invention we take by preferencethe chinoline ofSkraup; or weprepare such chinoline according to the patent, No.241,738, granted to Zdenko H. Skraup May 17, 1881, and then we free thesame from the impurities mixed therewith by treating it with tartaricacid,wherebya tartrate of chinoline is obtained, and then we liberatefrom this salt the chinoline by treating its aqueous solution withcaustic alkalies. If desired, however, ohinoline prepared in any othermanner may be used for our purpose.

For preparing our new compound we take about twenty-six parts ofchinoline and mix the same with about twentysix parts of strong alcohol.The mixture is then slightly heated while twenty-eight parts of thesalicylic acid are added, the heating being continued until a clearsolution is obtained. On cooling the acid salicylate of chinolinecrystallizes. For

time subsides, and the chinoline,

further purification the mass is crushed in a mortar, then brought uponafi-Iter, and'washed with cold alcohol. The salt in its pure state iswhite; but frequently it appears slightly colored with a reddish tintfrom minute impurities contained in the salicylic acid.

Our salicylate of chinoline is easily soluble in warm alcohol, but muchless in cold alco-' hol. Water acts in the same manner. Gaustic alkaliesadded to the aqueous solution produce at first milky turbidity, whichafter some being thus liberated, collects in oily drops either at thebottom or surface of the liquid,which depends upon the specific gravityof the water solution.

'WM. PIGKHARDTI [L.S.] HERMANN ENDEMANN. LL. s] Witnesses:

W. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER.

